Pursued

We all love the upcoming holidays...Thanksgiving and Christmas bring a spirit with them that we all want to dwell in for longer than we make time to...

You may have noticed a lack of blogging in the past couple of months...In follow-up to David's last post about being "good" and "busy", I too have felt the hustle and bustle of life, and allowed myself to stray from spending time with the Giver of life, let alone time to process or write down any thoughts. In the midst of doing so, I even questioned why I do this to myself...sort of like when Paul says, "I do what I do not want to do"...such a mysterious phenomenon that plagues humanity and reveals our mortal nature. Though all the while, my heart longed to connect with my Father. You know, when your heart truly desires to find rest, peace, truth-everything and anything good, and you feel drawn to just be in the presence of God? For this, I am so grateful, that God would create me to be in relationship with Him at all times; to desire Him over anything else. Apart from Him, I really cannot do anything so well, as I am limited to my human strength and ability to do, do, do, rather than be, be, be. For all the times I've chosen not to rest in the Lord, He still draws me to Himself! How awesome is He! This Thanksgiving, the thing I am most grateful for is that my God pursues me relentlessly.

I chose to spend some time with Him this morning-just me and Him-in the Word and in prayer. I did not have any revelations, but I experienced His presence again and became overwhelmed with thankfulness. I suddenly had new insight and words of encouragement for friends and family who have shared struggles and asked for prayer, whereas before I had nothing to give them. I felt "full" again!

This is nothing new and an ongoing lesson learned...I wonder if I will I ever just "get it" and live it out. If I want to have a fruitful ministry, a flourishing marriage, blessed friendships, and one day a family founded in Christ's love, I must be in direct communication with the Source of all these things.

May you realize the Lord's relentless pursuit of you, His child, and may He be your Source today!

How are you doing today?

I wonder what the top ten answers to that question are?  I would love to take a survey to find out. I have been paying more attention to my own response to that question recently.  I answer that question and similar ones 90% of the time with "Busy" or "Good".

So what if people remembered us based on our top two answers to that question?  I guess people would remember me as "David BusyGood" or "Mister GoodBusy".  Isn't our life just the sum of a bunch of days?  And what if a majority of those days I was simply "Good-n-busy"?  That is a crappy thing to be remembered by, a crappy thing to have on a gravestone. I would be remembered for having a full schedule, and enjoying it at a slightly positive level.  Boring.   

Soon my answers will be more like "Awesome! You gotta hear about my week..."  or "Wow, things are going great! Want to hear hear why?"  or if I am really hurting to say "not great...want to hear about it?".    I am excited to get out of this hyperactive mediocrity,  Full-of-motion-void- of-life kind of thingy...I hope y'all will slap me next time you hear "good" or "busy" in explaining how I am doing.  It's either that wake up slap or I continue to put you to sleep by giving you my dissertation on why my life is just "good" or "busy", something you are probably not all that intrigued by anyway.

How do you want people to remember you?

What will the sum of your individual days be?